Some of these changes are easily done by WP-CLI, yet that is imho already too late. install 4 plugins of my choosing on each default WP install, activate them and configure them (ideally I could mass-assign even changing of configuration to new and already installed WP sites)
socket instead of tcp database connection (plain for speed and in a second step to assign redis-MariaDB wrapper) In my case it is an extremely fast Wordpress environment, where soon the following adjustments are needed (and I didnt dive into how to apply which yet):
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